Almost 100 000 euros against 34,500 planned. Radio France group confirmed, in the evening of Tuesday, March 17, the amount paid for the renovation of the office of its president, Mathieu Gallet, this winter. Le Canard chained had revealed this information in its edition to be published on Wednesday.
This excess can be explained by the restoration of “precious rosewood paneling” that adorn some of the walls of the room, according to the satirical weekly, which reproduces an internal document to the public company. This operation, carried out by a specialized company – the amount had been largely underestimated – cost alone some 70 000 euros, said Radio France Agence France-Presse. These would be the first restoration of its kind since the inauguration of the Radio House in 1963.
The additional expenses were programmed in a “budget completion of Work” 2.9 million, according to the public service group. All of the radio house is under construction since 2009. Its restoration is the most important of a building occupied France. These pharaonic works, with a total cost of 350 million euros, to be completed between late 2017 and early 2018. A fire broke out Friday, October 31 and whose causes remain to be established, had been the umpteenth episode become an endless construction
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But these expenses fall when Radio France announced a “plan to return to balance” , after the adoption by its Board of Directors of its 2015 budget deficit of 21.3 million euros – a first in the history of group of public radio.
Given this situation, the SNJ Radio France said he “stunned, shocked and dismayed” on Tuesday by the confirmation of the revelations of Duck chained . The National Union of Journalists said it was “ very worried, in a context already weighed down by threats to employment and ultimately on business missions” . Several unions group, the SNJ, filed on Thursday a strike notice quadruple. This is the third call for the cessation of work in a month against possible social and savings measures
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